Juliette-Noor Haji

Juliette-Noor Haji

Democratic Party

Candidate, New York City Civil Court Queens County 1st Municipal Court District

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November 4, 2025

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Juliette-Noor Haji (Democratic Party) is running in a special election for the Queens 1st Municipal Court District judge of the New York City Civil Court Queens County. Haji is on the ballot in the special general election on November 4, 2025. Haji advanced from the special Democratic primary on June 24, 2025.

Haji completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Juliette-Noor Haji earned a law degree from City University of New York. Haji's career experience includes working as an attorney and law professor. Haji has been affiliated with the South-Asian Indo-Caribbean Bar Association of Queens (SAICBA-Q), Queens County Women's Bar Association (QCWBA), and Queens Criminal Court Bar Association (QCCBA).

Elections

2025

See also: Municipal elections in Queens County, New York (2025)

General election

Special general election for New York City Civil Court Queens County 1st Municipal Court District

Juliette-Noor Haji is running in the special general election for New York City Civil Court Queens County 1st Municipal Court District on November 4, 2025.

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		Juliette-Noor Haji (D)

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Democratic primary election

Special Democratic primary for New York City Civil Court Queens County 1st Municipal Court District

Juliette-Noor Haji defeated Thomas Wright-Fernandez in the special Democratic primary for New York City Civil Court Queens County 1st Municipal Court District on June 24, 2025.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Juliette-Noor Haji	69.3	19,941
		Thomas Wright-Fernandez	30.3	8,710
		Other/Write-in votes	0.4	124

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	There were no incumbents in this race. Source	Total votes: 28,775
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Endorsements

Haji received the following endorsements. To send us additional endorsements, click here.

• New York State Assemblymember Claire Valdez (D)
• Zohran Mamdani (D) - 2025 New York City mayoral candidate

Campaign themes

2025

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Juliette-Noor Haji completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Haji's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Juliette-Noor Haji is a career public defender, law professor and mother running for Civil Court Judge in Queens County. She has dedicated over 15 years of public service to residents of Queens County as a Staff Attorney and currently as a Court Liaison and Supervising Attorney with the Legal Aid Society. In addition, she is a law professor who has taught at two renowned law schools in New York City-CUNY School of Law and Cardozo School of Law.

Juliette-Noor Haji began her legal career with a judicial clerkship in New Jersey. After completing her one-year clerkship, she began her career as a public defender with the Legal Aid Society, representing thousands of clients in Queens courts. After several years as a Staff Attorney, she was promoted to a supervisor-a position which she currently holds. In addition to supporting dozens of colleagues in her capacity as a Supervising Attorney, she has also spent the past several years advocating for procedural and substantive changes in the operation case processing in both Queens Criminal Court and Queens Supreme Court, Criminal Term, in her capacity as a Court Liaison.

In addition, Juliette-Noor Haji has taught Criminal Law to first year law students at both CUNY School of Law and Cardozo School of law.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

• Juliette-Noor Haji has proven her dedication to public service by spending the past fifteen years of her legal career serving her community.
• Juliette-Noor Haji has shown she has the qualifications needed to make an excellent judge. She has taught Criminal Law at both CUNY School of Law and Cardozo School of Law. She has also spent the past several years working with third year clinical students through CUNY's Defenders' Clinic, supervising them as they learn to represent clients in Queens Criminal Court. Additionally, she has created and presented over a dozen Continuing Legal Education courses, some of which have been presented to hundreds of criminal defense attorneys throughout the city,
• Juliette-Noor Haji is also a mother of a Queens public school student. In furtherance of her commitment to public service, she has sat for several terms on the Community Education Council in District 30, where she has advocated for students and their families in regards to issues involving funding and zoning. She also served as the PTA president at a District 30 school.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Juliette-Noor Haji is passionate about serving the Queens Community. She is eager to play her role to help the bench reflect the wonderfully diverse community of Queens.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I look up to my deceased father. When I was a child, he used to always tell my sister and I to think of what we could do to help others. This was so ingrained in us that we both chose careers in which we would serve those who were voiceless. When my father passed, that very phrase is the one we chose to put on his grave-"think of what you can do to help others". This is how he chose to live his life, and he is a person that I look up to.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

A judge should not only be impartial but respect all litigants who appear before them and treat the people who appear in their courtroom with dignity. They should have the experience necessary to allow them to interpret the laws that apply in the courts in which they preside.

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